The official summer sun, BBQ and thunder thread 2019

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Sorry central Scotland!

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Forecasts were pretty accurate.

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Dear Kent and Essex. No sleep for you tonight...

As for that storm over northern England...



https://twitter.com/UKWX_/status/11544547474467758...

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p1stonhead said:

Don’t wanna keep mentioning it, but I have air con at home. Got a bit chilly in the night actually

Sleeping on the ground floor with small windows opened and only a sheet for cover, I got too cold too!

Slept very well though.

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With all the excitement I genuinely hadn't looked ahead for the rest of the weather.

We're caught in another slack pattern - low to the west, high to the east, stuck in the middle with a bit of both.

I'm seeing a Channel low on Monday - I suspect that could get quite 'bangy'.

Positive signs for high pressure in August - let's see.

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colin_p said:

I went on a 23 mile ride on the heavy 29er mountain bike yesterday evening. To and from Dorney Lake and then four laps round it. It was quite nice whilst out and moving along at my typical 10-12mph, just enough windchill. I was hoping to be able to see the huge streamer of storms to the East of London but didn't see anything, it was a big ask and just too far away. Once back home it was a different matter, there was no escape from the heat.



Pug / anyone else...

There is a huge (as in about the size of Wales) stormy lump of cloud in the Bordeaux region of France heading in our direction. Hope it somehow gets here!

Blitzortung shows it over the Massif Central - winds don't seem to be favourable to push it north, and I have stopped relying on storms crossing the Channel a long time ago.

Best storm I've ever seen in Berkshire came from the NW a couple of years ago.

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• * STOP PRESS***

Provisional recording of 38.7 degrees in Cambridge, yesterday, being investigated by the MetOffice. If confirmed, this would be the new all time record.

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Melman Giraffe said:

I will be in Dubai on Monday - 41c all week. Hopefully i will survive

Dry heat, although fierce sun. Anyway, you're aclimatised now

Will you visit the snow dome so you can end your day early?

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55palfers said:

Well, there you go - toasty hot and sunny most of the week, today because I'm having a BBQ, it's pi55ing down in Solihull.

Will it dry up by 15:00 hrs?

Further south and west you are, the better. This rain will be stubborn and heavy in parts.

Our bbq is getting lit up at 13.00

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Graph of the heat burst. That is truly incredible. Not a phenomenon I'd heard of.

Seems it happens when a storm collapses and all the heat and energy falls to Earth.

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Temp difference 48 hours after peak

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Mrs Puggit is in Cardiff this week, I've warned her she's at the centre of the expected weather

Low pressure system will come up from the SW - there is uncertainty, but it looks quite powerful.

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Dog Star said:

Carol wotshername on the BBC gave us in Rochdale a mention this morning - we had a months rain in two days over the weekend. I've got to say it has to be the wettest weekend I can remember - from Friday evening til I went to bed last night it has absolutely bladdered down - proper hard bouncing rain - continually. A very depressing weekend.

After midday Saturday, it was lovely here near Reading - the band of rain moved to the north and left us in sunshine

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Tuesday looking very unsettled - widespread small storms possible. High winds (for summer) in the south along the coast.

Wind map (mph)


CAPE chart (an indicator of thunder potential)

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S100HP said:

So Puggit, Friday.....?

See the MetOffice pressure forecast:



Largely benign, very little wind. That thick black line from Aberdeenshire to East Midlands is a trough, and would bring an increased risk of cloud and precipitation. However, details like that can change significantly as we get closer. So the take home is - more pleasant than tomorrow

The chart shows very weak high pressure over the UK - the colourful lines to our west are Atlantic fronts, and that area of high pressure would not prevent them encroaching very soon after that chart.

Edited by Puggit on Monday 29th July 09:15

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colin_p said:

A bit naughty today, those temps are creeping up. Patio thermometer is currently showing 28.9c

Won't get that high for a while again!

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Back to heat...

Last Thursday's recording of 38.7 in Cambridge is OFFICIAL. Hottest day - ever...

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Northolt and Heathrow benefit from a lot of concrete near by. And Heathrow from warm jet wash too

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funkyrobot said:

Holiday break near London next week. How's it looking?

Inconclusive

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Yellow warnings do not indicate danger to life - yet the press are always banging that drum!